St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-10-29

The Union Coal Company, of Shamoiun,
Pa. has issued orders to its mine fUremen
to remove all persons working in the mines
who are unable to speak and understand the
EnglIsh language. Through the inability
OF men not understanding English orders
are frequently misunderstood. causing serl-
| Gus accidents and endangering the lives OF
all. Hungarians and Polanders will suffer
most.
The WOman's Socialist Aid Society Of Chi
cago celebrated its first anniversary by con-
cert and ball, the object being to collect
fund for the families of the condemned An
archists. There was a crowded audience.
and one of the features of the occasion was
poetic prologue and an anniversary ad-
dress, both in German, by William Lange.
| The prologue was very red" and contained
such utterances as many more blood offer
ings will be required of u.s." Lange said in
his address that the authorities ''were max
| ing superhuman efforts to get him in the
same pie as the heroes but, despite all
warnings he would ever be in the front
rank, and would prove that he was
| fighter"
| A meeting has been held in Cincinnati to
express sympathy with the Anarchists. A
vague resolution condemning Chicago police
and Chicago courts and declaring willing
ness to use legal measures to secure justice
for the eight condemned Anarchists was
adopted. The matter ended here, for no
money was raised for the benefit of the con-
demned men.
The roof of the Metropolitan gas works at
ctr
New York, fell III, injuring five men, one of
them, William B. Lundy, the engineer, Sc
verely.
}. a. Chapleau, secretary of state for the
Dominion, said at public banquet in Of
tawa recently: Commercial union is an
idea which can never prevail in Canada, be-
cause it would destroy our Canadian indus
tries and our Canadian nationality. 1t holds
out deluslve hopes to the agriculturist and
while believe Canadians do not desire it, [
feel satisfied that the Americans will not
have it. There is no body in the United
States who would embrace the idea of COM
mercial union unless they thought it meant
political union as well. Such political union
would wipe out forever all the hopes and as
pirations of the people for Canadian nation
alty, and would deprive them of all the
blessings they now enjoy"
Stephen W. Rawson, president of the
Union Trust Company, of Chicago, was
shot, and it is thought fatally wounded,
while in the doorway of church, by his
stepson, William Lee, aged seventeen years.
Mr.. Rawson had made application for a
divorce from his wife, and within week
had filed additional charges against hep. 1t
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by young Lee, Mrs. Rawson's son by a
former husband.
John A. Newsome, charged with being
the stage robber who alone, on the night of
September %, stopped two stages full of pas
seEgers between San Angelo and Ballinger,
has been arraigned in Waco, Tex, and re-
manded to Jail on failing to give bond for
$500.
The interruption of telegraphic commu-
nication with Charleston, s. c., recently
which gave rise to SO many conflicting re-
ports and surmises, was caused by $500
fire three miles from that city. The wires
were repaired later in the morning
A bill has been introduced in the Mexican
Congress which provides that if a church is
not used for public worship it may be con-
tiscated on the declaration of private
party to that effect and sold at auction, part
of the proceeds falling to the state and the
rest to the denouncer.
The American ship Bridgewater, seized
by the customs officers at Halifax, and held
for some weeks, has been released. The
question of the damages claimed by her
captain will be considered hereafter
In Chicago, Judge Gary, who presided at
the Anarchist trial, was renominated by
acclamation by the Goudy- Green wing of
the Democracy of that city. Judge Gary,
who is Republican, was nominated without
opposition last week by the Kern Larder fac
ton Of the Democracy, or short hairs'e as
they are locally known. The Goudy-Green
or silk stocking faction, while accepting
Gary, nominated a full county ticket of
their own, separate from that of the "short
hairs" The Republican convention is yet
to be held.
Frederick Sturtevant, convicted of horse
'tealing in Lawrence, Mass, has been SEN
enced to twenty-five years imprisonment.
lie had served two terms of imprisonment
# five years each. His was the first case to
ome under the criminal law passed by the
asst Legislature, which provides that any
riminal convicted of State prison offense,
Who has served two terms over three wears
ach, must be sentenced to twenty five years.
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